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In
1986, when Surgeon General C Everett Koop challenged the nation to
create a smoke free society by the turn of the century, the focus was
on creating a "smoke free class of 2000"
children who would go
from first grade to high school without ever smoking a
cigarette.1
In 1990, when the African American community opposed the introduction of Uptown Cigarettes, a brand that RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company had designed for African Americans, the battle cry was that the tobacco company was coming after black kids. That threat galvanised the African American community.2
In the mid 1990s when David Kessler, head of the US Food and Drug
Administration, began his quest for approval to regulate nicotine in
cigarettes, he marshalled support by calling smoking a "pediatric
disease" because smoking typically begins in late childhood or early
adolescence.3 The recent FDA effort to curb teen smoking
has been called " . . .the most important
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